单词 | tiburon |
释义 | tiburonn. A name given by 16–17th century navigators to one or more large species of shark; applied specifically to the bonnet-headed shark, Reniceps tiburo; now, on the Mexican Pacific coast, to Carcharinus fronto. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > subclass Elasmobranchii > order Pleurotremata > [noun] > miscellaneous types of tiburon1555 dog1673 picked dog1673 picked dogfish1740 tiger-shark1787 piked dogfish1805 ground-shark1834 sea-attorney1849 gazer1861 shovel head1881 puff shark1902 spur-dog1921 whaler shark1937 megamouth1977 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 201 The Tiburon..is a very great fysshe and very quicke and swifte in the water, and a cruell deuourer... The sayde Tuberon [etc.]. 1565 J. Hawkins 2nd Voy. (1878) 22 Many sharks or Tuberons..came about the ships [Sierra Leone]. 1579 T. Stevens Let. 10 Nov. in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1589) i. 161 There waited on our ship [i.e. in the Atlantic within the Tropics] fishes as long as a man, which they cal Tuberones. 1598 W. Phillip tr. J. H. van Linschoten Disc. Voy. E. & W. Indies i. xlviii. 89/1 There is in the riuers, and also in the Sea along the coast of India great store of fishes, which the Portingalls call Tubaron or Hayen.] 1622 R. Hawkins Observ. Voiage South Sea xix. 43 The Sharke or Tiberune, is a Fish like vnto those which wee call Dogge-fishes, but that he is farre greater. 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 728 Fish common to both oceans..sword fish, saw fish, tiburones, manitis. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1555 |
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